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Shows & fairs, 1837

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Random Recollections of the House of Lords. [This volume is a companion to a similar work on the House of Commons, published a few months since, with very considerable success. Such good fortune has not supplied us, as the bock possesses so large a share of that personal interest which secures temporary if not issuing popularity. The present volume likewise possesses this attraction to a great extent, as our extracts show; the first of which may be said to occupy a similar station in [?]rit. It is, indeed, a happy specim[?] of fac[?]e, descriptive writing.] The King

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 30 March 1837 · page 4

In person the King is about the middle height He can scarcely be said to be corpulent, but his stoutness approaches to it. His shoulders are ratber h[?]gh, and of unusual breadth His neck has…

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